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Thoughts from the mind of Kool Musick, 9/22/01:

>Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...> wrote:
>>Thoughts from the mind of Kool Musick, 9/20/01:
>>
>>  >100 aircraft are now flying
>>  >out Saturday to Kuwait, and her son is amongst them. She is sincerely
>>  >terrified that she will never see him again. What do I say to her?
>>
>>... and what do you say to the tens of thousands of innocent
>  >Afghanistan citizens, most of them dead-poor,
>
>I do not know those thousands of innocent Afghanistan citizens and you have
>not right to presume that I do not care about them.
>[...]
>I cannot speak for anyone else but I did not find your message in the least
>helpful to me; and nor did I find it in the least compassionate.

Apparently you took my message as a personal attack in reply to your 
earlier post.  That was not my intention at all, and I'm sorry you 
read it that way.  It's just that much of the "official" language 
I've heard coming out of the US lately has been bothering me greatly. 
Given the US's status of super-power, and given its self-proclaimed 
"defenders of freedom" alure, I find it sad to see how easily 
gut-feelings (no matter how understandable they are) can come to 
dominate sense & sensibility.
Probably I shouldn't have cited your message at all, since, really, 
it didn't have that much to do with what I tried to say.  I'm sorry 
for that.

regards,
HJ
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     Hendrik Jan Veenstra
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